Prof. Eamon Duffy, from a 2015 review in the Guardian of The Nuns of Sant’ Ambrogio by Hubert Wolf:

But, mysteriously, he ( Joseph Kleutgen S.J. – SC)was soon back in favour. In 1870 Puis XI lifted all the ecclesiastical censures against him, and he was appointed a theological adviser at the first Vatican council. According to Wolf, the key to this remarkable turnaround lay in Kleutgen’s fashionably rightwing theological views. In the early 1850s he had pioneered the novel claim that not only were solemn decrees of popes and councils infallible, but the “ordinary magisterium”, or routine teaching of the pope and Curia, was itself binding on Catholic consciences and above scrutiny by theologians. This teaching rapidly became an official orthodoxy, music to the ears of Puis XI and his entourage, and Kleutgen was able to surf the rising tide of papalism back to respectability and influence.

How is Duffy adapting his “classic” Catholic progressive analysis to the current party line emanating from the Bishop of Rome and his courtiers ascribing quasi-infaliibilty to the “ordinary magisterium” of Bergoglio, to the Conciliar liturgical changes etc.?

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